#Borrowed from:
# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1089662/python-inflate-and-deflate-implementations
import zlib
import base64

def decode_base64_and_inflate( b64string ):
    decoded_data = base64.b64decode( b64string )
    return zlib.decompress( decoded_data , -15)

def deflate_and_base64_encode( string_val ):
    zlibbed_str = zlib.compress( string_val )
    compressed_string = zlibbed_str[2:-4]
    return base64.b64encode( compressed_string )
